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1. Add 26374

Reference (shelfmark):
Add 26374
Title:
Laghu-Kṣetrasamāsa by Ratnaśekhara with Pārśvacandra's Tabo
Scope & Content:
Laghu-Kṣetrasamāsa by Ratnaśekhara with Pārśvacandra's Ṭabo. Classic work on Jain cosmology in Prakrit (265 vss.) with explanation in Gujarati.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Gujarati and Prakrit
Date Range:
1769
Extent:

Paper. Poṭhi bound in volume. Folios 10-11-12 and 41-42 bound in wrong sequence. 30 x 12 cm; 22 x 11 cm. Lines: 4(m), ca. 18(ṭ), interlinear. Folios 10-11-12 and 41-42 bound in wrong sequence. Illustrated. Good condition.

2. EAP781/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP781/1
Title:
Santipur and its neighbourhood: text and image production history from early modern Bengal through public and private collections
Scope & Content:
The project is a digitisation programme of all available rare books from the earliest time till 1950s and in Bengali language housed in selected libraries. Once the project is over the materials will be available to scholars both in-house and through http access. The original materials are locate...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Arabic, Bengali, English, Hindi, Maithili, Panjabi, Prakrit, and Sanskrit
Date Range:
8th century-18th century
Extent:
291,035 TIFF images

3. EAP781/1/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP781/1/1
Title:
Collection of manuscripts digitised from Santipur Bangiya Puran Parishad
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Bengali, Prakrit, Sanskrit, and Undetermined
Date Range:
8th century-18th century
Extent:
102,775 TIFF images

4. EAP781/1/1/170

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP781/1/1/170
Title:
Prākṛtaprakāśa
Scope & Content:
It is one of the oldest pieces of Prākṛta grammar. This ms comprises the text up to some part of the 5th chapter. Extent and format of original and physical characteristics: 17 Folios; Incomplete MS.; Extremely fragile. The original size of the folios are 33X8 cm. Author: Vararuci
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Prakrit
Date Range:
1st century BC-2nd century
Extent:
36 TIFF Images

5. EAP781/1/1/885

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP781/1/1/885
Title:
Saptanayavivaraṇa and Siddhapada
Scope & Content:
These are two Jain texts. The first one is written in Sanskrit and the other one is in Ardhamagadhi. A folio consisting of a list of contents is found in the beginning. A Kroḍapatra, which discusses about the creator of this universe, is inserted after the list of contents. Extent and format of o...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Prakrit and Sanskrit
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
16 TIFF Images

6. EAP781/1/1/886

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP781/1/1/886
Title:
Prākṛtapiṅgala
Scope & Content:
It is a work on Prākṛta prosody. Folios from 1st to 59th are missing. Extent and format of original and physical characteristics: 24 Folios; Incomplete MS.; Extremely fragile. The original size of the folios are 34X14 cm. Author: Piṅgalācārya; Scribe: Bhaṭṭa Lakṣmīnātha
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Prakrit and Sanskrit
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
50 TIFF Images

7. IO SAN 607a

Reference (shelfmark):
IO SAN 607a
Title:
Nandighoṣavijaya or Kamalāvilāsa
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Prakrit and Sanskrit
Date Range:
1666
Extent:
foll. 51

8. IO SAN 3177

Reference (shelfmark):
IO SAN 3177
Title:
Kalpasūtra + Kālakācārya-kathānaka by Devacandrasūri
Scope & Content:
Kalpasūtra + Kālakācārya-kathānaka by Devacandrasūri in Prakrit. A canonical and a narrative text from the Jain Śvetāmbara tradition. This is the ms. used by Jacobi for his edition, translation and glossary of the Kālaka-story in Das Kālakācārya-Kathānakam ZDMG 34, 1880, pp. 258-278. At that ti...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Prakrit
Date Range:
15th C
Extent:

Paper poṭhi bound in volume. Original foliation: 1-154. 29 x 9 cm.; 23 x 5 cm. 6 lines. Twofold ms. with three margins of 2 cm., two on the sides, and one as a separation between the two parts of the ms. Good condition. `It is written with silver on 113 leaves, most of which are painted alternatively black and red. ... There are many pictures in the text, and arabesques on the margin. (MSS. of this kind are not unfrequent with the Jainas' (Jacobi, see below). The leaves are indeed lavishly decorated. Their background are either black or pink. Fol. 2 is written in golden letters with a cream-coloured background. Borders are also sometimes richly decorated. The same is true with the middle margin which separates the leaf into two parts.

9. Or 5149

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 5149
Title:
Kalpasūtra
Scope & Content:
Kalpasūtra: Jain Śvetāmbara text in Prakrit containing the biographies of Jain Tirthankaras.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Prakrit
Date Range:
15th C
Extent:
Bound paper poṭhi. 80 folios, 26x11 cm. Illustrated.

10. Or 11921

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 11921
Title:
Kalpasūtra
Scope & Content:
Kalpasūtra: Jain Śvetāmbara text in Prakrit containing the biographies of Jain Tirthankaras.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Prakrit
Date Range:
15th C
Extent:
Bound paper poṭhi. 74 folios; 28.5x11,5 cm. 38 illustrated folios.